As Editorial Director, Jennifer leads the editorial mission of the Working Mother brand through its many print, online, social and digital channels, reaching more than 2 million readers nationwide. For the Working Mother Research Institute, Jennifer oversees the Working Mother 100 Best Companies, Best Companies for Multicultural Women, and Best Companies for Hourly Workers, as well as the National Association of Female Executives Top 50 Companies and NAFE/Flex-Time Lawyers Best Law Firms for Women. She also manages the Diversity Best Practices Assessment and Benchmarking Tool. Jennifer is married with two children, Gwendolyn and Owen.

Entries by Jennifer Owens

The secret is one that 25 Best Companies for Multicultural Women know: That the key growing their business is diversity. That's why women of color make up 21 percent of the 2.5 million employees represented by this year's...

When it comes to putting food on the table -- on a weeknight, no less -- the brunt of the burden still falls most heavily on moms. And when mom also has a full-time job, well, the time available to make a healthy dinner happen for everyone is tight, to...

When Janelle Camacho was 9, her working mom went blind at work one day. Her mom's multiple sclerosis diagnosis changed every aspect of the family's life. Racked by seizures, she could no longer work, money was tight and Janelle and her brother spent lots of time with relatives while their...

When I was younger, dating and generally trying to figure out men, Cosmo's headlines were always the most eye-catching: What men won't tell you... Real-life advice from an actual guy... What do men really want?

Little did I know 20 years later that I'd find the answer at Working Mother....

On September 16, Working Mother revealed its 29th list of Best Companies, 100 employers that are leading the way to create workplaces that support working families. Twenty-nine years is a long time for any initiative -- and anything that has been around that long should be recognized.

You'd think something experienced by nearly 20 percent of the American workforce (or nearly 27 million people) wouldn't be such be such a taboo topic for us and yet for decades, most women opted to suffer from in silence.

Hey, GenX-er, remember when we were the Slacker Generation -- and how annoying it was? Today, we're more like the Triage Generation, juggling everything thrown our way by our kids, our careers, the economy and whatever else you think of.

When Pew Research revealed last year that 40 percent of all households with children are led by moms who are either the sole or primary earner for the family, I wasn't all that surprised. After all, as Pew notes, two-thirds of these breadwinning moms are single working moms.

I ran smack into the paid family leave debate long before I had kids. I was working as a newspaper reporter in South Carolina, far from my Midwestern hometown, but still glad to have snagged a job in my shrinking industry during a (previous) recession.

We all know that to give is to receive so much more in return, but did you know that more than a third of us working moms are considered active volunteers? I was once a member of those ranks, doing park cleanups, hiding Easter eggs, working bake sales....

If you have a flexible job, you already know its power to make your full day work, from morning drop off to the late-night conference call. (I'd share my calendar from today, but I don't think you'd believe it!)

Who knew I was so trendy? I had my babies in my 30s because that's when I finally had all the pieces together to complete my own family puzzle. Now I know that I wasn't alone: the birth rate among women in their 30s and early 40s is rising, while...

Ten years ago, as a reporter and soon-to-be working mother, I read with extreme personal interest the spate of stories revealing the new "opt-out revolution" among well-educated and well-off new moms who had chosen to stay home with their babies.

What's my number one goal for back to school this year? Not to waste money. Next weekend, you'll find me running through all the kids' clothes to see what still fits, what needs replacing, what needs repairing and whatnot. Honestly, I'd rather buy one cute thing for the kids --...

It's that time of year again -- time for handmade cards and way-too-early-in-the-morning kisses from the kids and a spa gift card from the husband. (I've been looking forward to my annual Mother's Day massage for more than a month now.) These are just the gifts I want as a...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, the focal point for so many of our stresses as working parents this year, has upped her company's paid parental leave offerings. That's great news for new moms- and dads-to-be at her company.

Indeed, during an interview on "Good Morning America," More editor-in-chief...